follistatin
noun
follistatin is spelled F-O-L-L-I-S-T-A-T-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is follostatin: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Follistatin is a noun meaning “A protein that binds to, and neutralizes, activin”. The plural of follistatin is follistatins.
How do you spell follistatin?
Follistatin is spelled F-O-L-L-I-S-T-A-T-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for follistatin in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does follistatin mean?
noun
- 1
A protein that binds to, and neutralizes, activin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of follistatin
- follistatins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is follistatin?
Follistatin appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does follistatin come from?
From folli(cular fluid) + -statin, indicating the bodily fluid from which it was first isolated.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).